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Re: Bug 1+4/10

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg120136] Re: Bug 1+4/10
• From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
• Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 07:33:21 -0400 (EDT)

On 7/8/11 at 4:50 AM, human at site.pl (slawek) wrote:

>U=C2=BFytkownik "Oleksandr Rasputinov"  napisa=C2=B3 w wiadomo=C2=B6ci grup
>dyskusyjnych:iv456e$eop$1 at smc.vnet.net...

>>Proper treatment of inexact numbers requires at least some care and

>There is no "inexact numbers". There are only inexact computations
>and/or measurements.

>3.14 is an approximation of pi, but it is exactly 3+1/10+4/100

Quite simply, on any modern computer using floating point
arithmetic it is not true that 3.14 is exactly 3+1/10+4/100.
Floating point arithmetic as implemented in modern computers
simply does not work that way and has not on any mainstream
machine made in the past 10 years or so. And this is totally
independent of Mathematica.